Rothmans Four-Nations Cup - final
India won by 3 wickets (with 64 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 325 | 1984/85 season
- Played at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium (neutral venue)
- 29 March 1985 (50-over match)
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GM Wood | run out | 27 | 61 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 72.97 | |
| KC Wessels | c Gavaskar b Madan Lal | 30 | 91 | 68 | 2 | 0 | 44.11 | |
| DM Jones | c †Viswanath b Madan Lal | 8 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| AR Border* | c & b Amarnath | 27 | 48 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 71.05 | |
| KJ Hughes | c & b Amarnath | 11 | 37 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 45.83 | |
| GRJ Matthews | lbw b Kapil Dev | 11 | 51 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 35.48 | |
| SP O'Donnell | run out | 3 | 29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12.00 | |
| SJ Rixon† | run out | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| MJ Bennett | lbw b Shastri | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RJ McCurdy | c Vengsarkar b Shastri | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CJ McDermott | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 13, w 5) | 18 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 42.3 overs) | 139 | (3.27 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-60 (Wood), 2-71 (Jones), 3-78 (Wessels), 4-114 (Hughes), 5-115 (Border), 6-131 (O'Donnell), 7-138 (Matthews), 8-139 (Rixon), 9-139 (Bennett), 10-139 (McCurdy) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1.50 | |||
| RMH Binny | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| S Madan Lal | 7 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 4.28 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 8 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 3.62 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 9.3 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 1.47 | |||
| M Amarnath | 7 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 2.71 |
| India innings (target: 140 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RJ Shastri | c †Rixon b O'Donnell | 9 | 49 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 34.61 | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b McDermott | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Azharuddin | c Jones b McDermott | 22 | 51 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | b McDermott | 35 | 71 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 81.39 | |
| SM Gavaskar | run out | 20 | 60 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| M Amarnath | not out | 24 | 51 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| N Kapil Dev* | b Matthews | 1 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7.14 | |
| RMH Binny | b Matthews | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| S Madan Lal | not out | 7 | 22 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 9, w 7, nb 4) | 20 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 39.2 overs) | 140 | (3.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat S Viswanath†, L Sivaramakrishnan |
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Srikkanth), 2-37 (Shastri), 3-41 (Azharuddin), 4-98 (Gavaskar), 5-103 (Vengsarkar), 6-117 (Kapil Dev), 7-120 (Binny) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 10 | 0 | 36 | 3 | 3.60 | |||
| RJ McCurdy | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2.75 | |||
| MJ Bennett | 10 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| GRJ Matthews | 10 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 3.30 | |||
| AR Border | 1.2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series India won the 1984/85 Rothmans Four-Nations Cup |
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Player of the match
M Amarnath (India) Player of the series SM Gavaskar (India) |
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Umpires
HD Bird (England) and Khizer Hayat (Pakistan) |
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